Reckless Longing for Her

The print edition of *Delusion and Her* is now available. Weibo: @Qu Xiaohu 1. Lin Qingya comes from a family of Kunqu opera performers. Her whole family has inherited a gentle, uncompetitive nature down to their bones, and she is as kind and yielding as water. In her case, she is even more beautiful than an orchid hidden among brocade. Everyone says Lin Qingya will one day marry a man who is just as gentle and mild-mannered. Then she meets Tang Yi. 2. Tang Yi has the face of a beauty, but his temperament is eccentric, volatile, and cruel. He comes from a powerful family, and there is never any shortage of men or women hoping to throw themselves at him. Unfortunately, not one of them catches Tang Yi's eye. As a result, plenty of people secretly joke that he is impotent. Then, on the third day of Lunar New Year, the people at one of his subsidiaries host a banquet and enthusiastically invite him to see some kind of Kunqu opera prodigy. Tang Yi goes. He has little patience. After waiting just three or five minutes beneath the stage, he loses interest. He tosses his cup aside and turns to leave, his expression cold and severe. Not a soul dares to stop him. Just then, the flute begins to play onstage. To the clear, gentle melody, a woman steps slowly out from behind the curtain, holding a flower fan as she looks toward the audience. So delicate and graceful, and with just one glance... From that night on, Tang Yi dreams of nothing but her. The woman he had not seen in years, the one he dared not defile. 3. Later, people would always say that Kunqu opera was as refined as a spring day in the snow, and Lin Qingya was a spotless immortal in that pristine world. Business warfare, by contrast, was coarse and vulgar, and Tang Yi was its most ruthless master, with a heart as black and hands as dirty as they came. Yet the man who emerged from the mire, filthy from head to toe, was the one who stained the pristine snow with its most vivid hue. [A ruthless, brooding business tycoon × a pure Kunqu opera performer, as pristine as snow] [, You are my addiction.] Half*reconciliation after a breakup Faux*coercive romance [Author's note] She was once the god he dared not defile. Until the god abandoned him. [Note]: The Kunqu opera troupe, characters, performances, artistic achievements, and award records in this story are all fictional and have no real-life counterparts. (Blurb written and posted on Weibo on September 17, 2020) · The next book is *Senior Year, Round Four*. See the author's profile. Theme: Preserving and promoting traditional Chinese culture.